National Weather Service

Travel impacts for the Thanksgiving holiday could start tomorrow, with a chance of patchy fog and drizzle throughout the day Wednesday. Conditions could deteriorate further for part of our area on Thanksgiving, with a chance of snow from southern MN through west central WI.

Snow remains on track to move across Iowa, southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois this afternoon into early Saturday. Far southern Minnesota will be on the northern fringe, but will still pick up 1 to 4 inches this afternoon and evening.

A potent storm system moving northeast from the central Plains into the Great Lakes will bring strong winds, cooler temperatures and the potential for heavy rainfall for this Veterans’ Day through tomorrow.

Behind a departing cold front, strong west to northwest winds will develop this morning and persist for much of the afternoon. Much of western Minnesota is under a High Wind Warning with eastern Minnesota into western Wisconsin under a Wind Advisory.

Periods of showers and thunderstorms will prevail through Thursday morning, especially over Minnesota. Locally heavy rainfall is possible. Drier weather is then forecast for the weekend with above normal temperatures.

The National Weather Service says there's a good chance Central Minnesota will see severe weather Saturday afternoon/evening. A broken line of thunderstorms will develop over western Minnesota during the middle of the afternoon and will quickly become severe with very large hail, damaging winds…